BLACKCAPS to visit Australia in 2007

The BLACKCAPS will return to Australia in 2007 to contend the VB Series against their hosts and Ashes rivals England.

The squad will use the tour as a precursor to their World Cup campaign, which begins in March of that year.

The team kick off the campaign in Hobart on January 14 against the hosts, before taking on England two days later.

The BLACKCAPS will play the other sides four times ahead of a best-of-three final series, which will be held consecutively in Melbourne, Sydney and - if required - Brisbane, starting at the MCG on February 9.